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<\/p>\nMorgan Gibbs-White fired a 15-minute hat-trick to move Nottingham Forest closer to Premier League survival after a 4-1 win over Burnley.<\/p>\n
Gibbs-White has so often been the hero for Forest since their return to the top flight and once again delivered when his side needed it the most.<\/p>\n
Forest, who were in Europa League action on Thursday night, were labouring against the Clarets and a damaging afternoon looked on the cards when they fell behind to Zian Flemming’s strike on the stroke of half-time.<\/p>\n
But Gibbs-White produced the goods in a rampant second half, bagging a first career treble in just a quarter of an hour, with Igor Jesus adding a late fourth, to move the hosts five points clear of 18th-placed Tottenham.<\/p>\n
Defeat was another nail in Burnley\u2019s relegation coffin and, with just one win since October 26, their fate could be sealed next weekend.<\/p>\n
Elliot Anderson returned to the Forest side for the first time since the death of his mother, having missed Thursday\u2019s Europa League quarter-final win over Porto.<\/p>\n
The England midfielder laid flowers in the centre circle ahead of kick-off and there was a minute\u2019s applause as the City Ground got behind the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n
Forest knew the size of their opportunity, but scoring goals had been a long-term problem at home and this match at first appeared to be no exception.<\/p>\n
The hosts lacked intensity of spark in a turgid first half, and their afternoon looked like taking a turn for the worse in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
A poor defensive header from Nikola Milenkovic allowed Burnley to build an attack and Quilindschy Hartman\u2019s cross found its way through to Flemming, who converted at the far post.<\/p>\n
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The first goal always felt like it was going to be crucial and the prospect of scoring one was difficult enough, so two seemed like a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n
But Igor Jesus was brought off the bench at half-time and provided a spark which suggested it might be possible.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian striker\u2019s shot from the edge of the area was blocked and the ball fell kindly to Gibbs-White, who had time and space eight yards out, but rushed his shot and scuffed it horribly wide.<\/p>\n
But he made amends in style as he enjoyed a golden 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
First, he showed the required composure to bring Forest level in the 63rd minute. Milenkovic headed a ball back into the area, which Flemming could only flick on into the path of the home captain, who calmly slotted into the net.<\/p>\n
He then sent the City Ground into raptures six minutes later as Forest went in front.<\/p>\n
Omari Hutchinson got to the byline and stood up a cross for Gibbs-White to lash home at the far post, with a low controlled finish.<\/p>\n
It got even better in the 76th minute as Forest killed the game.<\/p>\n
Substitute Ryan Yates won the ball on the byline and sent in a cross for Gibbs-White to send a towering header into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Forest added a fourth late in the game when Jesus raced clear and found the bottom corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Gibbs-White fired a 15-minute hat-trick to move Nottingham Forest closer to Premier League survival after a 4-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-407025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}